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Torque specs for MQ front diff
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 5:44 pm
by Heathx4
Hoping someone can fix me up with torque specs for:
MQ front diff crownwheel bolts
MQ front diff carrier bearing bolts
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 4:38 pm
by beefie
crownwheel 78nm
carrer cap 98nm
cheers beefie
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 5:30 pm
by Screwy
SWING ON THEM in other words
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:36 pm
by Heathx4
Cheers beefie, and thanks for the msg screwy. That's actually less than I imagined! 78Nm is 8kg.m right, so on my half meter torque wrench, that's about 16kg of weight on the handle. Hardly swinging on it!
Anyway, I didn't have the specs when I put the diff back together, so I took a bit of a guess. My new torque wrench had ft.lbs on one side and I figured out later the odd scale on the other side was kg.m. From memory I set it at 64ft.lbs = 8.9kg.m = 87Nm, which corresponded to a fair shove on the end of the wrench, but nothing strenuous. I used the same setting for the carrier bearing cap bolts, which subjectively required quite a bit more effort because of the positioning.
I haven't filled the diff or put the cover on, so it's not too late to touch the bolts up. I'm tempted to leave all the bolts at their current 87Nm. I didn't use any loctight, but some was used on the crownwheel bolts by the last guy. How sensitive should I be to these specs?
Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 7:47 pm
by MARKx4
Heathx4 wrote:Cheers beefie, and thanks for the msg screwy. That's actually less than I imagined! 78Nm is 8kg.m right, so on my half meter torque wrench, that's about 16kg of weight on the handle. Hardly swinging on it!
It is if you are jeff...
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2005 8:41 pm
by Screwy
MARKx4 wrote:Heathx4 wrote:Cheers beefie, and thanks for the msg screwy. That's actually less than I imagined! 78Nm is 8kg.m right, so on my half meter torque wrench, that's about 16kg of weight on the handle. Hardly swinging on it!
It is if you are jeff...
HaHaHaHa cunnie funt........... i can put a good 80 kgs at least into a swing thank you
